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Creative Processes in Irish traditional music: a bodhrán-playing perspective (2023)

Robert Brian Sheehan
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This is the web-based written component of an arts practice research project carried out from May to August of 2022 as part of the MA Irish Music Studies programme at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance (IWAMD) at the University of Limerick. The project set out to explore the broad topic of creativity within Irish traditional music through the embodied means of my own bodhrán playing. In particular, I set out to see to what extent the creative process of switching between ways of gripping the bodhrán stick (“grip switching”) could be embodied effectively in my bodhrán playing. As well as this written component, which contains multimedia elements such as video and music notation, this project is also presented as a thirty minute performance of traditional Irish music where I accompany an accordion player to demonstrate and explain some of the findings of my research.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsarts practice research, traditional music, Irish, bodhrán, movement, embodiment, emergent rhythm
date14/06/2022
published16/01/2023
last modified16/01/2023
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationUniversity of Limerick
copyrightYes
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1686682/1721714
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/rc.1686682
published inResearch Catalogue


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1721993 Bodhrán Weavings Robert Sheehan 2022 CC BY-NC-ND
1722442 The boy by Caomhín Ó Danachair Department of Irish Folklore, University College Dublin. All rights reserved
1725022 Motor Structure as a Heuristic for the Development of Bodhrán Expressivity Robert Sheehan CC BY-NC-ND
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1725862 Schema 04 Polkas Robert Sheehan All rights reserved
1726200 MOS_notation Waltons Musical Instrument Galleries Ltd. All rights reserved
1726203 COM_notation Colm Murphy All rights reserved
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